A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

ten votes, and no person shall be allowed to vote
more than One hundred shares of stock; the stock-
holders on the aforesaid cases may vote either in
person or by proxy, and the Commissioners afore-
said, or any three Or more of them, shall be Judges
of the first election of Directors.

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Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That the company
hereby incorporated and organized shall have
power to make and construct a railway with single
or double tracks and sidelings, as they may deem
expedient for the transportation of passengers and
freight by horse power, from the western limits of
the city of Baltimore via Franklin to Powhatan,
in Baltimore county.

Powers of
Company.

Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That said company
be and they are hereby authorized, provided they
can obtain the assent of the Franklin and Calver-
ton Turnpike Company or any other company, for
that purpose, which assent the said corporation is
hereby fully authoiized to give, to construct and
establish the said railway upon the beds of the said
turnpike roads, with power to alter the grade
thereof, and they may construct their said railway
and run their cars thereon, subject only to such

To construct
railway.

regulations and conditions as may be prescribed
by said turnpike companies; provided, however,
that the rate of fare to be charged by said railway
company shall not exceed the sum of four cents per
mile for each passenger, and for freight five cents
per ton per mile.

Proviso.

Sec. 7. And be it enacted, That in case the said
company shall not be able to agree with the Presi-
dent and Managers of the Franklin and Calverton
Turnpike Companies for the construction and es-
tablishment of their railway upon the bed of the
said turnpike roads, then they shall be and they
are authorized to make and construct the said rail-
way, of a width not exceeding sixty feet, with the
necessary additions for excavations and embank-
ments, upon a line running in the same general
direction with the said turnpike roads by the most
practicable route from the western limits of the
city of Baltimore, via Franklin to Powhatan, and
for that purpose, if the same be necessary or expe-
dient, to cross and lay down on the said turnpikes
and any other public roads or turnpikes wherever

Dimensions
limited.